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Adding to an impressive list of expeditions, four members of the Mountaineering Club will leave New York tomorrow to join the British-Himalaya Expedition in an attempt to climb Nanda Devi, the highest peak in the British Empire...
...Mahatma last week invited to his retreat at Wardha a 9-year-old Hindu girl named Kumari Shanti Devi, who, it is claimed, is India's first modern case of demonstrable reincarnation. In Delhi this child has aroused the interest of psychiatrists, physicians, scholars and ecclesiastics. In full detail she has described her last life on earth, which ended about a decade ago. Taken to Muttra, where her previous existence was supposedly passed, Shanti Devi identified her onetime husband and their son, now 10. In a crowded street she spied her first father and mother, raced to embrace them...
...Mahatma Gandhi the sharpest pangs of dismay is plump & pleasing Nilla Cram Cook, 23-year-old daughter of the late George Cram Cook, Iowa poet. At 19 Nilla Cram Cook married a Greek nobleman. Three years later she was converted to Hinduism under the name of Nilla Nagini and Devi, "The Blue Serpent Lady...
...smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely...
...harried by swarms of pickets. Censorship made certain that any bad news would be at least delayed. Said Mrs. Gandhi mildly when told of her husband's incarceration: "I hope India will show her mettle and make a fitting reply to the Government's unwarranted action." Cried Devi Das Gandhi (son), as he was jailed for "sedition" last week at New Delhi: "There will be a great battle raging presently that cannot but end in the liberation of India...